A YouTuber has gotten much attention on social media after recreating the famous slap Will Smith gave host Steve Martin at the 2022 Oscars. The YouTuber made a short video to show how people can grow from their experiences without becoming violent. When clips from the short film were shared online, people were led to believe that Will Smith had copied the stunts from the short film for his performance at the Academy Awards.
The 15-minute short sketch was written and made by Dhar Mann, an entrepreneur and a film producer. The movie, Movie Star Slaps Host at Award Show, What Happens Is Shocking, starts with the comedian and event host Corey (played by Rishi Arya) making a joke about the actor Elijah (played by Melvin Ward) losing weight. What comes next is a big surprise. Corey then suggested that the actor’s wife, Angela, was responsible for his weight loss. Because of the actor, Angela had lost weight (played by Shaunte Massard).
Then, while Angela is watching the movie, Corey says something rude about her. Elijah notices that the jokes about his wife are not making her happy, but he and the rest of the audience keep laughing at the jokes. After that, Elijah gets up and walks toward the stage, where he hits Corey. Elijah is walking back to his seat when Corey hears him shout, ___Don’t say my wife’s name!
People on the Internet think that Will Smith stole the short film
As clips from the short film started to be shared on social media sites like TikTok, many internet users thought that Will Smith just played the role of Elijah and, in a classic case of life imitating art, slapped Chris Rock in the face at this year’s Academy Awards. Chris Rock was in charge of running the event. On the other hand, this is not true. As we’ve already said, Dhar Mann’s short film could be seen after the embarrassing thing that happened on the award stage.
The event at the Oscars gave people a chance to learn something
The short video has been watched more than five million times on Dhar Mann’s YouTube channel, with more than 15.5 million fans. Will Smith must feel awful that his smack at the Oscars has become a worldwide sensation. Many memes about the topic have been popping up on the internet recently. Not only has he been a source of humour online, but he has also been dealt many blows in his career. The actor and Netflix have broken their promise to make a sequel to the critically acclaimed movie Bright. Also, he will not be able to go to the Academy Awards in any way for the next ten years.
Bloomberg says that because of what happened at the Oscars, the making of his series Pole to Pole for National Geographic has also been put on hold for a few months. On Friday, the actor who plays King Richard went on David Letterman’s show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. During his time on the show, he said that while he was in Peru drinking ayahuasca, he had a vision in which he was told that he would lose everything in his life, including his home and job.
